President Obama calls out Black Lives Matter

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President Barack Obama criticized the Black Lives Matter movement, saying that activists should be willing to sit down and discuss their agenda with leaders in power rather than “yelling at them.” At a youth town hall in London on Saturday, the president lauded the movement for effectively bringing attention to racially motivated police violence across the country, but he said the harsh tone activists are using is troubling. “You can’t just keep on yelling at them and you can’t refuse to meet because that might compromise the purity of your position,” Obama said. “The value of social movements and activism is to get you at the table, get you in the room and then start trying to figure out how is this problem going to be solved. You then have a responsibility to prepare an agenda that is achievable —that can institutionalize the changes you seek and to engage the other side.”

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